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Alum Charlie Offenbacher ’12 is co-founder and CTO of The Book Rocket, a campus-focused textbook marketplace. The company aims to offer higher buyback prices for textbooks by simplifying the process + saving students money. He and his co-founder Shey Baesler, are looking to make The Book Rocket national within the next year.

A NEW KIND OF ENGINEERING COLLEGE

Olin is Different*

Olin College of Engineering was founded to not only graduate engineering innovators who will be leaders in solving the pressing global challenges of today and tomorrow but also as a resource to other colleges and universities across the world seeking to broaden and rethink their educational approaches and learning environments.

Turns out presenting products to a board of directors is a lot easier than giving a #uocd presentation. // @OlinCollege@browley20

Olin Snapshot

A CULTURE OF INNOVATION

At Olin we believe that engineering is a creative enterprise that begins and ends with people and their desire for a better world. We have created an extraordinary learning community that is bound by a vibrant culture of innovation and a vision to change engineering education to make it a fun, engaging, meaningful and a powerful experience. We invite you to Discover Olin!

Olin on Instagram

#OLINPROJECTS

Olin is all about learning engineering by getting your hands dirty (and sometimes lots of other things, too). Students typically complete about 20 projects during their four-years here, which amounts to many hours in labs, machine shops, classrooms and team meetings. We want to bring the fun of those projects to you via Instagram along with some amazing shots of campus and miscellaneous student adventures.

Princeton Review Ranking

Olin a Best Value College

TheBest Value Colleges profiles seventy-five public and seventy-five private colleges the Princeton Review designates as “Best Values” based on the Company’s surveys of 2,000 colleges and universities in 2013-2014.

Olin is noted for its "rigorous engineering curriculum that prepares students to be ‘twenty-first century engineers"

The Olin Curriculum

At Olin, it’s not just about what students know, but what they do with that knowledge. Every student learns about software, electronics and mechanical systems, and has several chances to work with students from other majors on interdisciplinary projects.

In User-Oriented Collaborative Design students intensively study the needs of selected "user groups" (think emergency room nurses or bike couriers) before they even think about designing products for them.

Collaborate with Olin

Olin is more than just a laboratory for innovation in engineering education on our own campus. We are also a “collaboratory,” dedicated to co-designing transformational educational experiences with and for other institutions.

1000+ educators have visited Olin since the inception of the Collaboratory in 2009. Many come in to do an introductory day visit, which is a compelling way to experience the unique culture of Olin and spark ideas.